Day 3 of the Chinese New Year: Enjoy Super Stir-Fried Chicken
What could a Chinese New Year dinner table be without a show-stopping dish? Beijing Huairou Snail Farm offers not only organic vegetables but also large free-range roosters. What is the best way to cook them? Snail Farm personally shares its recipe for super stir-fried chicken—on the third day of the Chinese New Year, enjoy stir-fried chicken to your heart’s content!
Ingredients:
One free-range rooster from Snail Farm, sweet peppers (for colour), 100 g of spring onions and ginger, 10 Sichuan peppercorns,
one star anise, a small piece of cassia, two slices of Chinese angelica, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, a can of beer, salt
Method: The whole process takes about two hours
1. Wash the rooster and chop it into pieces (a fresh chicken does not need blanching); cut the sweet peppers into chunks.
2. Heat a pan with plenty of oil; fry the ginger slices until golden; add the spices and stir-fry until fragrant.
3. Add the spring onion pieces, spread the chicken pieces evenly in the pan, pan-fry until the underside sets, then stir-fry.
4. Stir-fry until the surface is lightly charred and the oil is clear and bright; add a little dark soy sauce for colour.
5. Add the beer and stir-fry, then add boiling water until it covers the chicken pieces.
6. Season with salt and light soy sauce, cover the pan, and simmer over medium heat.
7. When the sauce is almost reduced, add the green and red peppers and stir-fry.
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Time to eat! For the New Year, enjoy good flavours with a known origin.
Foodthink and the farmers at Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market present recipes for New Year dishes made with their own produce.
These recipes contain no measurements precise to the gram or the minute, and no showy or complicated methods.
What there is instead is certainty and confidence in the ingredients, and the simple, unadorned guidance you would give to family.
Thoughtfully chosen ingredients need no overthinking; a neat, easy method, with just the right heat, is enough.
In these recipes, behind every dish stands a real person—
The farmers know exactly what is good about their produce, and they know how to cook it in the way that best honours that goodness.
When a block of tofu can state its name, a chicken can recount its history, and a radish dares to tell you not to peel it—good taste follows naturally.
From the second to the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, there are New Year dishes from six farmers, one dish a day.
Day 2 of the Chinese New Year: Fragrant Steamed Free-Range Pork
Grow with care, prepare with ease, eat with peace of mind.
